--- title: A boy in Leeds put a metal spoon in a bowl in the microwave; it spar… — Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Leeds put a metal spoon in a bowl in the microwave; it sparked and set off a small fire, and the microwave was ruined. Who acts: boy, spoon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, spoon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.lesson:6 # text = A boy in Leeds put a metal spoon in a bowl in the microwave; it sparked and set off a small fire, and the microwave was ruined. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 microwave microwave NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sparked spark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 19 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 off off ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 microwave microwave NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 ruined ruin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | a boy in Leeds | a metal spoon | | a bowl in the microwave | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme in bowl=Destination | | 2 | **spark** | past | spoon | | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **set off** | past | spoon *not said here* | a small fire | | | | | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | | 4 | **ruin** | past · passive | | the microwave | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:038-simple-cooking-and-breakfast.lesson:6`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast/5/) - next →: [Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast/)